Population ageing presents considerable challenges for the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC), especially in countries where such coverage is still in its infancy. Ghana presents an important case study on the effectiveness of policies aimed at achieving UHC in the context of population ...
Many parts of the globe experienced the same inflationary pressures in 2022—179 out of 194 countries—and in most nations inflation has eased as it has in the U.S. Parts of Africa and the East still have high inflation—in Angola and Ghana the rate is about 22%, for example, and in ...
This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A broad concept of the costs of risk management strategies is introduced and encompasses both a time and monetary dimension. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that mar...
We first enhance our understanding of the BRI's complexity and past evolution by describing its complexity and the controversies surrounding it, including possible objectives of the BRI, before reviewing how other factors (among them, the pandemic) could change its course in the future. It is oft...
However, it does presuppose that, for every project that someone claims is an example of Community OR, it should be possible to explain what constitutes ‘the community’. This might be residents in a geographical locale, the members of a self-help group, a sub-category of the population ...
Do you have an urge to go back to Ghana 1941 and sneer at them for defiling their culture with swing music? See how silly this all is? Highlife was never anything but a hybrid, one piece of dialogue in the eternal conversation of culture. I may be out on a limb here but I’d ...
Foreign land grabbing is acknowledged as a phenomenon that generates disempowerment and dispossession of local farmers, human rights violations. Previous studies have revealed the lack of ethical benchmarks in foreign large-scale land transactions that raise moral concerns. It is evident that when resou...
2. Ethical Capitalism and the Need for Ethics in Large-Scale Land Transactions Within the land grabbing equation, grabbers perceive land value much higher than the price paid for it, which is the underlying reason for land acquisitions' magnitude. As a result, in practice, foreign land ...
Accra city, S Ghana; cap.; pop. 633,880.Achaea dept., N Peloponessus, Greece; 1,146 sq. mi.; pop. 229,000; cap. Patras.Aconcagua extinct volcano, CEN. Argentina; 22,831 ft.Acre city, NE Israel; pop. 37,900.Addis Ababa city, CEN. Ethiopia; cap.; pop. 1,125,340....
In Ghana, consumers across the regions of Greater Accra, Ashanti, and Western complained that the stove’s surface paint burned off at high temperatures, producing a strong odor [60]. In 26 of the studies, households expressed that they wanted a stove that does not require a specific fuel ...